Sleeve to guide the cages in roller-bearings.



C. S. LOGKWOOD. SLEEVRTO GUIDE THE GAGES IN ROLLER BEARINGS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1909.

Patented Dec.20, 1910.

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C. S. LOOKWOOD. I SLEEVE T0 GUIDE THE GAGES IN ROLLER BEARINGS.

' APPLICATION FILED JUN 979,317, Patented De0.20,1910.

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'sleeve' at one otthose ends after the cage with rolls is applied to the sleeve, and the nles games S. nocrzwoon, or

NEWARK, NEV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HYATT ROLLER BEARING COMPANY, or nansrson, new JERSEY, A conronsrron or NEW JERSEY.

I SLEEVE T0 GUZDE THE CAGES IN ROLLER-BEARINGS.

Specification of Letters Yetent.

Patented Dec. 20, 1910.

Application filed June 7, 1909. Serial No. 500,520.

"Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented eertaiunew and useful Improve. ments n Sleeves to Guide the Cages 1n Roller-Bearings, fully described and repre- "sented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming s part of the same.

, The obyect of this invention is to furnish a wearing-sleeve applied to the casing of a roller bearing or to the journal titted therein, with integral means adapted to guide a cage and set of rolls in their rotation about the shaft in contact w th such sleeve.

The invention consists of integral tongues bent from the metal of the sleeve at or near 720 'on'eor both ends, at right angles to its cylindrical surface adjacent to one end of the so as to guide the cage in its rotation around the journal. If the sleeve has tongues at both ends, itis obviously necessary to bendt-he tongues upward from the flexible nature of such tongues permits this .to be done without diiliculty.

The casing of a roller bearing is commonly closedat the ends with integral or detachable heads, to retain oil in the bearing forlubricating the rolls, and the cage is restrained atone end in its movements by such head, so that in many cases it is only necessary to provide the sleeve with the integralv tongues at the opposite end, to hold the cage in the desired path within the "casing. 1

' The invention is especially adapted for application'to the hub of a pulley-which is meant to turn loosely upon a shaft, as the hub serves for theca'sing of the roller hearixig, and a sleevecan be readily fitted within each within; such sleeves and held in place by ongue's on the, sleeves.

'1 sleeve provided with the present iInrovement may be fittedto either the ins I to the shaft-journal which revolves thereinae will be :underwhile the through the sleeve.

end of the pulley hub, and sets of rolls stood by reference to the annexed drawing, in which Figure 1 is a. longitudinal section where hatched of a loose pulley with rolls inside 'the opposite ends of the hub; Fig. 2 is a side view of sleeve showin tongues .cut and bentinwardly to stand fiatwise inside one end of such sleeve; Fig.3 is an end view of part of such sleeve; Fig. 4 shows part of a sleeve with tongues cut and bentinwardly to standedgewise inside one end of such sleeve; Fig. 5 is 5 side view of a sleeve showing tongues set edgewise as in Fig. 4; Fig. 6 shows tongues punched from slots in the sleeve near one end; Fig. 7 is an end ,view of the hub and sleeve shown in Fi 1, with the head 6 removed from the hull; Fig. 8

shows a hub similar to Fig.- 1 with a shaft having asleeve with tongues bent thereon at both ends; and Fig. 9 is a perspective view of suchsleeve.- Figs. IQ and 11 show a similar sleeve for lining the casin g In Fig. '1, a designates a pulleyhub, b, b,

heads secured upon the opposite ends end projected inwardly toward'theshaft e. (Z is a sleeve like that shown in Fig. 5 'iitted within one end of the hub and retained therein by forming a dent-'0 in the outer end of the sleeve, the metal being driven by a punch into a note f in the outer end of-the hub, as shown in Flgs. 1- and 7. Such dent holds the sleeve -from inward movement movement, thus securing the sleeve positively inone end of the hub. The integralton es.

head 1) holds it from outward are out upon one or both of their edges om the substance of the sleeve, and when bent inwardly, leave an open slot or aperture The inner end of the sleeve in Fig.

therefrom and bent inwardly at right angles to the cylindrical surface, the side of the cage h which carries the rolls 2'. Sleeves of the, character described herein are commonly made of sheet-metal or at .least of metal thin enough to have the tongues readily out upon the same and then bent by suitable means at right angles to the periphery of the sleeve. The sleeve and the cage are so proportioned that the cage turns freely between the head I) and the tongue g,

5 has integraltongues 9 cut and edgewise to 1 position to retain the cage upon the sleeve.

3 thus furnishin ton lies at the ends ofthe sleeve and rolls in a very convenient form ,whichthey are bent to perform the funcand is thus the shaft. in the opposite end of the same I hub, a sleeve. j is shown like that illustrated in Fig. 6, Where sl ts is are punched in the sleeve near one curl: with integral tongues 6 I bent from the outer end of such slots inwardly at right angles to the cylindrical surface, and flatwise to the side of a cage 12. which is fitted'between such tongues and the head I). I

Fig. 2 shows tonguesm'iformed near one end of a sleeve m by cutting two-slits inwardly from such edge, and bendin' the metal between such slits within the s eeve,

slots equivalent to e tongues Lin Figs. 1 and '6; but the tongues bent from slots, as in Fig. 6, may stand somewhat nearer the end of the'sleeve; and a shortersleeve thus be used to furnish the tongues.

Fig. 8 shows the cage guided entirely by guided in a uniform path around 1 that whether the sleeve be tongues 42, a, bent from opposite ends of the sleeves (1 upon the shaft 0, the ton cs 01 being bent at one end of the sleeve store the cage is applied thereto, and the tongues at the opposite end then bent into the required Such a construction for the sleeve of the shaft enables the sleeve to hold the cage and rolls together in transportation, in readiness for application to the shaft, and serves to guide the cage in the casing independently of the casing itself. Such result is secured by making both the cage and sleeve undivided so that both'are of circular form, and

byahand-tool.

Having thus set forth the nature of the the cage can only be applied to the sleeve endwise.

In Fig. 9 arr-auxiliary tongue 7 is shown adjacent to one of the tongues 12., and the sleeve may be secured upon the shaft by bendingsuch tongue 50 downwardly into a notch q in the shaft, as indicated at one end of the sleeve in 8.

Fig. 9 shows the appearance of the sleeve (Z with the tongues. ll-72 bent up at both ends; and the sleeve slotted at 1 to furnish the tongue 79 for locking the sleeve to a notched shaft. Y

Figs. 10 and 11 show a lining sleeve with tongues 0 to bend inwardly at both ends tov retain the cage therein. The sleeve (Z mayn have one set of the tongues 71 or a bent upwardly, and the cage and rolls then applied thereto. and the other set of tongues bent upward, thus securing the cage niovably on the sleeve; and forming a self-contained for transportation. and-ready for applica: tion to a suitable shaft; at any desired oint. As several terms of the tongue to gui e the rolls are shown in the drawing, it will be understood that the shape of the tongues is not material or the part ofttie sleeve from slot at right angles to tionsclaimed herein. It will he nnderstoed stasis the sleeve may be used to carry the cage and rolls in a self-contained structure, one made to lit the shaft or one made to fit the casing, as in either case the lugs-upon the sleeve project toward the ends of the cage and serve to hold it upon the sleeve. Fig. 10 shows the tongues projected from the ends of the sleeve, which brings the tongues at the extreme end of the sleeve when bent inwardly as shown in Fig. 11.

It will be understood that in all the constructions shown. the metal of the sleeve is malleable soas to permit the bending ot the tongues when cut therefrom, such malleability permitting the tongues to be bent by hand upon one end of the sleeve so as to secure a cage within or upon a sleeve after a it applied thereto. I

I am aware that it is common to form sleeves for a casing, or for an axle, with an integral flange spun or otherwise formed upon the end of the sleeve; but an integral 1.

flange cannot readily be spun upon the end of a sleeve after a cage with contained rolls is applied to such a sleeve; whereas the tongues shown herein can'be readily bent into the required position by a. hand-tool after a cage with rolls has been a the sleeve. use broadly of means to hold a cage upon a. sleeve, but the sleeve formed with integral tongues as shown herein, adapted to be bent invention what is claimed herein is:

1. In a roller bearing, the combination, with a casing and .a shaft journal, of an integral cylindrical sleeve, an undivided cage of circular form with a series of rolls therein. and adapted to slip endwise upon the sleeve, the sleeve having slots ,near its ends and tongues having parallel edges sepa} rated from the side of such slots andadapted to be bent inwardly by a hand-tool at the end-of said the periphery of the sleeve, to retain and guide the cage upon. the sleeve in-its rotations within the casing.

2. In a. roller bearing, the combination, with a casing and a shaft-journal, of a sleeve fitted to the casing and secured from end movement therein, ahead upon the casing adjacent to'the outer a cage with rolls fitted to the sleevebetween the journal and casing and tongu formed upon the inner end ofthe sleeve add bent at right angles thereto adjacent'to the inner end of the cage, whereb "the tongues and the casing-head form gui es for the-rotation of the cage.

3.}ln aroller bearing for loose "alleys, the'combination, withv t e pulle fortning, the casing at the o heads upon h h projected to;

the apposite ends of substance of the sleeve atthe Y plied to. i do not, therefore, 0 arm theend of the sleeve,

ward the shaft separate sleeves fitted with- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set in the hub at opposite ends adjacent the said my hand in the presence of two subscribing 10 heads and having tongues at their inner endcsl' witnesses. bent atright angles to their periphery, an t t t a cage with a set of rolls fitted Within the H Y LOCKTWOOD' sleeve in'each end of the hub' between the \Vitnesses:

head ancl'the said tongues and guided there- CHARLES R. COOK,

by in their rotations around the shaft. I IRENE M. SGHREIBER. 

